waiting for a story

Monday, March 11, 2013
3:30 AM

my guy traveled all last week. which makes for a long week and pot luck dinners. it did give me some free time to blog organize. i started by going through my draft box. wordless posts with only photographs. i had no clue i had so many pictures waiting for me to tell their story. that sounded sweet :) one draft went all the way back to 2011 at camp honey.

so tuckaleechee cavern pictures...

here is your story.

i'm guessing it took me so long to add words because this place scared the journaling right out of me! i am a cautious person. scared of... almost everything ;) and this place was

terrifying on so many levels.

to enter the cavern you had to walk climb down approximately three stories of narrow rickety wooden stairs. fear caused me to momentarily lock up. i remember thinking, these are the stairs into hell... a hell that is frozen over, because the chill was icy. dramatic, i know.

this picture sums me up!

and these were not the entrance stairs. they were wooden and you climb them like a ladder. here you see the 'fancy' stairs taking us closer to hell deeper into the earth.

someone else had the jitters!

after a few minutes of trying to shake off the what ifs.... what if there was a minor earthquake. what if a child fell off the ledge. they would never be found (where are those monkey kid leashes when we really need them).what if the freaking electricity goes out...i would die. period.crazy death thoughts like that. i calmed and enjoyed the fascinating wonders of this cavern.